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Lord Jesus, I am all over the place. I guess at this very moment I feel alright, but it is the momentary pause after vertiginously staring over the precipice and just managing to settle my feet and stomach back on the place I am standing.

I really dunno what I am writing about at the moment, but I feel a need so I’m gonna ( Read more... )

wow... always so much to learn about ( Read more... )

i really, really don't ( Read more... )

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More from On Intelligence, (p.144)

After describing some of the methods and structures of interconnectivity in the neocortex, Hawkins returns to discussing an important feature of auto-associative memory and how it relates.

“As you may recall, auto-associative memories can be used to store sequences of ( Read more... )

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Invariant representation in higher-order cortical layers.

In more of On Intelligence, Hawkins talks about the differences between computational models of intelligence, such as those found in computers or artificial auto-associative memories, and what he calls his memory-prediction model.

He talks of the real-time that ( Read more... )

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In the second chapter of On Intelligence, author Jeff Hawkins, creator of such nifties as the PalmPilot and Treo phone, talks about how most early neural network models fell short of his criteria for understanding the brain. I wanna get into the first two for a bit.

“My first criterion was the inclusion of time in brain ( Read more... )

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In my previously posted start-of-a-mini-book-report, I cited Livio as suggesting that Penrose and others started with a theoretical idea that turned out to be a pretty good model of an actual physical property. Of course there’s nothing remarkable about that… all manner of thought experiments (if not EVERY manner of thought ( Read more... )

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Alright, nothing to do with primes yet, my apparently dangling participle of a subject to get around to writing about, but I got onto some other thoughts after reading Mario Livio’s The Golden Ratio. I’d kinda like to do a mini-book report on a bit of it and try to tie what I’ve learned from it back into my thoughts on brain-structure, ( Read more... )

Alright, nothing to do with primes yet, my apparently dangling participle of a subject to get around to writing about, but I got onto some other thoughts after reading Mario Livio’s The Golden Ratio. I’d kinda like to do a mini-book report on a bit of it and try to tie what I’ve learned from it back into my thoughts on brain-structure, memory and ( Read more... )

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sheesh... life has been busy, but last night, for the first time in a long time, i got a chance to put some of my thoughts down on paper/screen/disc... i'll get 'em uploaded as soon as my disc drive starts behaving better or get to another computer.

don't have anything to say now, though... just thought i'd jot a coupla lines while i was here